Without a doubt, this isn’t really the most convenient solution, and it obviously takes too much time to do this on a daily basis. In other words, you have to click the sign out button on your PC, laptop, and smartphones whenever you want to go offline. Microsoft doesn’t offer dedicated options to easily sign out of Skype from all your devices at once, so the only option is to do it on all of them individually.
While this is indeed a helpful feature for those who rely on Skype as the main messaging service, it’s not as helpful for those using the service for work and who just want to go offline for a few hours every day. Whenever you stop using one device without manually signing out, you’re still logged in on the others, which means that you remain available on Skype and anyone can still message you. Once installed, you can get at this from the Windows 8.1 desktop (which looks remarkably like “old” Windows, and is therefore the best feature 😉 ) and use Skype as you were expecting, without being forced to sign up yet another account just to achieve one thing.But there’s also a downside. You can download that from the following link: Simple! Install the “old” desktop client for Skype, which allows you to login with your Skype username and password. Who has one of those in our office? Nobody. The pre-loaded “modern” Skype asked for a Microsoft account…
We recently ordered and received some new machines at the Silicon Dales office, and, because clients often send us files in Microsoft formats, and we like to have familiarity with the latest Operating Systems our clients are likely to be using (and their idiosyncracies) for our conversations with them, one of the machines we’ve built has Windows 8 – Windows 8.1, to be precise – installed.Īs our team regularly conferences with each other, and our clients, via Skype, we tried to get this setup on Windows 8.1. This tutorial describes how to download and use Skype without a Microsoft Account – something the version of Skype pre-installed on later copies of Microsoft Windows doesn’t seem to allow.
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